Grants:Project/MSIG/Alhassan Mohammed Awal/Movement Charter Ambassador Program

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Alhassan Mohammed Awal/Community Conversations and Workshops on the Movement Charter for three Ghanaian Language Wikimedia Communities (Dagaare, Dagbani and Moore Languages)

To guarantee active participation in our communities in discutions regarding the governance of the movement, particularly those within our underrepresented region

targetDagaare, Dagbani and Moore

start dateMarch 25

start year2024

end dateApril 21

end year2024

budget (local currency)24,900.00

grant typeAn individual

grantee• Alhassan Mohammed Awal

contact(s)• alhassanawal77

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Project Goal

What will be the outputs of your project and how will those outputs contribute to advancing a specific Movement Strategy Initiative

What specific Movement Strategy Initiative does your project focus on and why? Please select one of the initiatives described here: Movement Charter: There is a lack of awareness among significant members of our community regarding the Movement Charter, leading to limited engagement. This project offers an opportunity for community members to come together, discuss, and enhance their understanding of decision-making processes within the movement. It aims to shed light on how these decisions impact both the individuals involved and the significant work underway

Project Background

When do you intend to begin this project and when will it be completed?: March 25, 2024-April 21, 2024. The project is intended to start from March 25 2024 with the translation of the meta page into Dagaare, Dagbani and Moore, and end on April 21, 2024 with Summary of meetings posted on Meta
Where will your project activities be happening?: In-person (offline): Our community members are available to meet in-person. People engage better this way. We will also host online meetings to onboard other community members who are interested in the conversations but cannot participate in-person.
Are you collaborating with other communities or affiliates on this project? Please provide details of how partners intend to work together to achieve the project goal.: Yes, I, User:Alhassan Mohammed Awal will cooedinate the enitire project. I intend to collaborate with the Dagaare, Dagbani and Moore Wikimedia Communities in the conversations and workshops.

The aim is to collaboratively utilize the funding support to localize the Movement Charter by getting experienced translators from the three language communities to translate the documents into their respective languages. The localization will trigger exciting discussions among community members in the conversations since their understading is enhanced by reading about the Movement Charter in their languages. User:Achiri Bitamsimli will be in charge of that. The communities involved are willing to use their communication channels such as mailing lists, social meidia handles and community portals to promote and create awareness about the project for wider engagements and outreach to community members. User:Sir Amugi and User:Zakaria Tunsung will be resposible for that.

What specific challenge will your project be aiming to solve? And what opportunities do you plan to take advantage of to solve the problem?: Many of the members of the smaller and underrepresented Wikimedia Communities like ours lack sufficient knowledge about the Movement Charter and as a reslut are left behind in the engagement processes. The Dagaare Wikimedia foreinstance is a community of enthusiastic and dedicated volunteers who are passionate about promoting and preserving their indigenous Dagaare language through the various Wikimedia Projects. Through their efforts, they were able to use just 10 months to incubate their language incubator and got it into live Wikipedia. However, none of their community members engages in the Movement Charter conversation because they do not know what it is all about. They are unaware of how and where they can get involved in the discussions and how certain decisions are made and how they affect them. This project presents an opportunity for community members to engage in discussions, in oreder to deepen their comprehension of decision-making processes within the movement. The objective is to shed light on how these decisions influence both the individuals involved and the important work currently in progress. As underrepresented and indigenous as our languages are, there is no machine support translation for them. However, we intend to leverage the experience of the language experts in the communities to mannually translate the relevant documents, pages and resources about the Movement Charter into their respective languages for members to be able to access and read them in their languages for enhanced understanding to enable them contribute meaningfully and significantly in the conversations. All the communities have dedicated communication channels and we will take advantage of that to promote the project and reach out to wider audience.

Does this project aim to apply one of the examples shared in the call for grants and if so which one?: Yes. Movement Charter Ambassadors conversations by Organizing community review conversations (online/offline) in our communities, collecting their feedback, and reporting back on Meta-Wiki, Translating the Charter content to ensure it is accessible in our communities' languages and

Distributing Movement Charter-related announcements in our communities.

Project Activities

What specific activities will be carried out during this project? Please describe the specific activities that will be carried out during this project.: We will specifically carry out these activities in accordance with the timelines stated above:

Translations: the following documents and pages will be translated into Dagaare and Dagbani.
1. Movement Charter content pages
2. Reports pages
3. Forms / Survey translations
4. Conversation events pages
5. Announcements
Community Engagement:
1. Outreach: While we are working on translations, we will ensure to reach out to the communities and inform them about the upcoming engagements. We will use the event registration tool and share on all the community communication channels for community members to register to participate.
2. MCDC community workshop: We will host an initial 2-3 hour workshop. This workshop will be about sharing the details of the Movement Charter with our community members. We will share practical examples of why their contribution to the Movement Charter discussions is important.

MCDC community conversation: We will host another 2 hour conversation session with our community members to discuss a shared plan and approach for how we engage in Movement Charter discussions

Who will be responsible for delivering on this project and what are their roles and responsibilities?

User:Alhassan Mohammed Awal is an experienced Wikimedian who will coordinate the entire project. He has volunteered in many Wikimedia Projects over the past years and have been engaged actively in the the Movement Charter Converzations and currently volunteering as an advisor to the MCDC.

User:Sir Amugi is a Communications expert and have played several cruitial roles in communicating, writing blog posts, and managing of social media platforms for smaller Wikimedia Communities within our region. He will be responsible for outreach, campaigns and general communications for the project.

User:Achiri Bitamsimli an experienced Wikimedia projects facilitator who has trained many Wikimedians in Ghana across all projects. He will be a facilitator with the support of the coordinator to train participants on how to take effectively get invovled in the movement charter converzations. He will also take community members through the translation processes of all the materials to be translated.

User:Zakaria Tunsung is a passionate Wikimedian from the Upper West of Ghana where Wikimedia projects are not so popular. He was instrumental in getting the first Wikimedia Community in that region to move their Wikipedia Incubator to Live Wikipedia. He will coordinate the online meetings for the Dagaare Community members who for proximity reasons to the event venue may not be able to participate in-person.

User:Hasslaebetch is an IT expert and a team member of the Moore Wikimedia Community. He will be resposible for fixing all techinical issues for the project.

User:Daara Original will be responsible for managing logistics for the entire project.

Additional information

If your activities include community discussions, what is your plan for ensuring that the conversations are productive? Provide a link to a Friendly Space Policy or UCoC that will be implemented to support these discussions.: We have adopted the friendly Space Policy by the Dagaare Wikimedia Community to bind on all participating communities. This can be found in the community's meta page at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dagaare_Wikimedia_Community/Membership

If your activities include the use of paid online tools, please describe what tools these are and how you intend to use them.: Subscription for a Zoom link for the meetings

Do your activities include the translation of materials, and if so, in what languages will the translation be done? Please include details of those responsible for making the translations.

Dagaare Language: Joachim Yirkang (User:Joachim Yirkang) will be resposible for the translation
Dagbani Language: Abdul Karim Ibrahim (User:AFA IBRAHIM) will do the translation.
Moore Language: Alidu Alhassan (User:Hasslaebetch) will do the translation

Are there any other details you would like to share? Consider providing rationale, research or community discussion outputs, and any other similar information, that will give more context on your proposed project.: The language communities are strategically selcted for this project to ensure that the impact does not end with them alone but will put them in a better position to also reach out to other communities by extending the skills and knowledge they have acquired to them also to get familiar with issues surrounding the movemment charter and how they can also get involved in the process.

Outcomes

After your activities are complete, we would like to understand the draft implementation plan for your community. You will be required to prepare a document detailing this plan around a movement strategy initiative. This report can be prepared through Meta-wiki using the Share your results button on this page. The report can be prepared in your language, and is not required to be written in English.

In this report, you will be asked to:

Provide a link to the draft implementation plan document or Wikimedia page
Describe what activities supported the development of the plan
Describe how and where you have communicated your plan to relevant communities.
Report on how your funding was spent

Your draft implementation plan document should address the following questions clearly:

What movement strategy initiative or goal are you addressing?
What activities will you be doing to address that initiative?
What do you expect will happen as a result of your activities? How do those outcomes address the movement strategy initiative?
How will you measure or evaluate your activities? What tools or methods will you use to evaluate your activities?

To create a draft implementation plan, we recommend the use of a logic model, which will help you and your team think about goals, activities, outcomes, and other factors in an organized way. Please refer the following resources to develop a logic model:

Overview of logic models on Meta-wiki
Example logic models for reference for other movement activities (such as partnerships and edit-a-thons)
Blank logic model template on Google Drive

Please confirm below that you will be able to prepare a draft implementation plan document by the end of your grant:

Yes, I confirm that I will be able to prepare a draft Implementation plan document by the of my grant

Optionally, you are welcome to include other information you'd like to share around participation and representation in your activities. Please include any additional outcomes you would like to report on below:

Budget

How you will use the funds you are requesting? List bullet points for each expense. Don’t forget to include a total amount, and update this amount in the Probox at the top of your page too!

The requested budget and budget breakdown should be in your or recipient’s local currency. We send grant payments preferably in your local currency. In some exceptional cases (e.g. hyperinflation), we allow grant payments to be made in US dollars. If you are requesting a grant in a currency other than your local currency, please reach out to your Program Officer to discuss.

Research (time needed to review, perform analysis, or investigate any information needed to support implementation ideas or planning): 2,000.00
Facilitation (facilitation time including facilitator preparation, meeting facilitation time, and debriefing): 1,000
Documentation (document preparation time, time spent documenting of discussion, post-meeting work): 1,500
Translation (translation costs for briefs and global materials): 2,000
Coordination (coordinator work to manage or support multiple workflows to prepare for meeting): 1,500
Online tools or services (subscription services for online meeting platforms, social media promotion): 1000
Data (internet or mobile costs for organizers or participants to access or participate in activities): 4,200
Venue or space for meeting (costs of renting a physical meeting space): 700
Transportation costs (costs of supporting organizers or participants to attend the meeting): 6,000.00
Meals (costs related to refreshments, lunches, or other meals during in-person activities): 4,000.00
Other: 1000

TOTAL AMOUNT REQUESTED IN LOCAL CURRENCY: 24,900

Completing your application

Once you have completed the application, please do the following:

Change the application status from status=draft to status=proposed in the {{Probox}} template.
Contact strategy2030 wikimedia.org to confirm your submission, as well as to request any support around your application.

Endorsements

An endorsement from community members (especially from outside your community) will be part of the considerations when reviewing your application. Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

This project will help the community members gain a deeper understanding of the Movement Charter for them to better engage in the movement activities. Sir Amugi (talk) 06:52, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

This is an opportunity for community members to get to understand the Move Charter so they can better engage in the Movement Charter activities and share their knowledge with other language communities across.Achiri Bitamsimli (talk) 07:53, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

This project will foster a deeper connection with Movement Charter activities. By doing so, individuals can enrich their understanding and actively contribute to the exchange of knowledge among diverse language communities.AYM8818]]^Talk 08:36, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
I support this project because it would go a long way to develop the communities. Awinimi (talk) 08:42, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

The project objective is key and crucial to engaging participants of the various language communities to abreast themselves with the knowledge of Movement Charter and it's activities and possibly contributing to the achievement of the Charter's objectives as well. Hasslaebetch (talk) 08:48, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

The project is a perfect idea for helping the smaller Wikimedia communities to be a part of the movement strategy discussions. Getting the movement charter content translated into indigenous languages is one surest way to get members to understand the operations of the movement and how they can also get involved in the processes.Zakaria Tunsung (talk) 10:08, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Strong support. This is a great proposal. I endorse it. Shahadusadik (talk) 13:13, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Strong support This would be helpful in the region. Timmylegend (talk) 16:42, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Strong support. This proposal has a great potential to ensure inclusiveness, as it gives minoritized languages a voice in the deliberations of the Movement Charter. I endorse it with all sincerity. Musahfm (talk) 20:27, 13 March 2024 (UTC)